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Durham University and China’s Palace Museum have signed an agreement, bringing together these two world-renowned centres of research and cultural excellence for the first time. The agreement is the first between the Palace Museum and an English university.

Durham University welcomed a House of Commons Select Committee to the region in December reflecting its growing relationship with UK Parliament. As part of the Committee’s brief to scrutinise the Government’s Industrial Strategy, they visited two of Durham’s world-class research groups based at the North East Technologies Park (NETPark).

Professor Jim McElwaine of the Department of Earth Sciences talks about new research, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, which has given some of the first detailed measurements of what takes place inside an avalanche.

Durham University Business School has launched its first ever MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). If you’re looking to find out all about open innovation, then this new free online course could be for you!

Almost all of us get songs stuck in our heads from time to time but why do certain tunes have the ‘stick factor’? The first large-scale study, led by Dr Kelly Jakubowski at Durham University, may have some answers to this musical stickiness.